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Executive Intelligence Review, Volume 20, Number 6, February 5 \1 1 0 LHlJ= ci l\l L"qJ ':." (VI H Ul"tl1. _ li;_ '� G�i " � l� \ G '� ' PRESIDENT CLINTON: E. F8fE f}ROUCH ET LAROUCHE GO FREE STOP WORLD WAR III . ------ Can Europe Stop the World Depression? EIR Special Report The best overview to date of the LaRouche "The ruin of developing countries and the "Productive Triangle" proposal, which is becoming deepening economic depression in the English­ world-famous as the only serious solution to the speaking world make clear that the system of present worldwide economic breakdown. Adam Smith is no more capable than that of Karl Marx to provide a solution to the economic $100 misery of eastern Europe. "What is required is a 'grand design' of European policy, which not only masters the task of reconstruction but simultaneously Make check or money order payable to: contributes to world development and peace. �TIillNe\Vs Service Such a plan is Lyndon LaRouche's proposed 'Productive Triangle' program." P.o. Box 17390 Washington, D.C. 20041-0390 -from the Berlin Declaration, Mastercard and Visa accepted. March 4, 1991 Founder and Contributing Editor: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Editor: Nora Hamerman Managing Editors: John Sigerson, Susan Welsh From the Editor Assistant Managing Editor: Ronald Kokinda Editorial Board: Warren Hamerman, Melvin Klenetsky, Antony Papert, Gerald Rose, Edward Spannaus, Nancy Spannaus, Webster Tarpley, our editor received an extravagant complime t from a Middle Carol White, Christopher White Y ri Science and Technology: Carol White Eastern reader who visited our offices a few days ago. He said, "We Special Services: Richard Freeman have a saying in Islam-to call the Devil by hi'S name. In your Book Editor: Katherine Notley Advertising Director: Marsha Freeman articles, you call the Devil by his name." However I think this Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol compliment is applicable to all of our authors, �specially to the INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: founding editor, Lyndon LaRouche, who taught us �o write the truth. Agriculture: Marcia Merry I am reminded Asia: Linda de Hoyos of the famous episode in Dante' � Paradiso, where Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, Dante encounters his ancestor Cacciaguida and begs him to foretell Paul Goldstein Economics: Christopher White his own future. Cacciaguida prophesies that the pott will be unjustly European Economics: William Engdahl tried for crimes of which he is innocent, and sent i�to bitter exile by Ibero-America: Robyn Quijano, Dennis Small Law: Edward Spannaus his native Florence. The poet replies that this prediction puts him in Medicine: John Grauerhalz, M.D. a dilemma. If, upon his return to earth, he writes all of the things he Russia and Eastern Europe: Rachel Douglas, Konstantin George has learned in his journey through the afterlife, he fears that not only Special Projects: Mark Burdman Florence, but every city will banish him. Yet if he holds back the United States: Kathleen Klenetsky truth, he will be blamed by futl!re generations. Ca9ciaguida's reply: INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: Bangkok: Pakdee Tanapura, Sophie Tanapura You must tell the full truth. If it makes some peopleiuncomfortable­ Bogota: Josi Restrepo he adds, in a line so pungent it must have raised eyebrows in Para­ Bonn: George Gregory, Rainer Apel Copenhagen: Poul Rasmussen dise-"let them scratch where they itch!" Houston: Harley Schlanger The "let them scratch" principle, which thus received at least a Lima: Sara Madueno Melbourne: Don Veitch fictional heavenly blessing, is fulfilled in several articles this week. Mexico City: Hugo LOpez Ochoa Startwith the Feature, which profilesmajor figureslin the new admin­ Milan: Leonardo Servadio New Delhi: Susan Maitra istration. We think it shows how urgently William Clinton needs Paris: Christine Bierre to free Lyndon LaRouche if his presidency is going to survive. Rio de Janeiro: Silvia Palacios Stockholm: Michael Ericson Remember, we're the ones who said that GorbacQov would not last Washington, D.C.: William Jones if he accepted western monetarist Wiesbaden: Goran Haglund dictates, and forecast that the Reagan-Bush phony recovery would earn GeorgeiBush an eviction ' EIR (ISSN 0273-6314) is published weekly (50 issues) from the White House. except for the second week of July, and the last week of December by EIR News Service Inc., 333If2 Here's another one of those famous EIR fo�casts: If Clinton Pennsylvania Ave., S.E., 2nd Floor, Washington, DC 2(J()()3. (202) 544-7010. For subscriptions: (703) 777- does try to export "democracy" as his predecessor:did, the rebellion 9451. which swept lbero-America in 1992 will seem like small potatoes. EunJfHlUI Hellllq/IIIIW,.,: Executive i!ltelligence Review . Nachrichtenagentur GmbH, Postfach 2308, The nation of Guatemala has been offered 0-6200 Wiesbaden, Otto von Guericke Ring 3, 0-6200 up on the altar of fake Wiesbaden-Nordenstadt, Federal Republic of Gennany human rights. But in nearby Mexico (see report on Gail Billington's Tel: (6122) 9160. Executive Directon: Anno Hellenbroich, Michael Uebig tour), the more the United States tries to impoverish and humiliate In De,I/,u,'*: EIR, Post Box 2613, 2100 Copenbagen !liE, Tel. 35-43 60 40 Ibero-America, the bigger the movement grows to free George In Mexico: EIR, Francisco Diaz Covanubias 54 A-3 Colonia San Rafael, Mexico OF. Tel: 705-1295. Bush's "Man in the Iron Mask," Lyndon LaRou¢he, and his asso­ JlI[HJn ,ub.cription .ales: O.T.O. Resean:h Corporation, ciates. Takeuchi Bldg., 1,34-12 Takatanobaba, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo 160. Tel: (03) 3208-782i. Copyright © 1993 EIR News Service. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in pan without permission strictly prohibited. Second-class postage paid at Washington D.C., and at an additional mailing offices. Domestic subscriptions: 3 months-$125, 6 months-S225, 1 year-$396, Single issue-SlO Postmaster: Send all address changes to EIR, P.O. Box 17390, Washington, D.C. 20041-0390. ITillContents Interviews Reviews Economics 10 Amb. Abdalla Ahmed 50 Can you fight a conspiracy, 4 W Qrld Bank tightens noose Abdalla if you say it doesn't exist? on Russia; resistance grows The ambassador to the United Why Johnny Can't Tell Right From The World Bank's austerity policy States from the Republic of Sudan, Wrong: MoralIlliteracy and the for Russia is causing a kind of Dr. Abdalla has served as minister Case for CharacterEducation, by patriotic nationalist backlash of agriculture, food, and natural William Kilpatrick. against the West, from the military resources. He holds a doctoral hardliners and industrialists like degree in plant physiology, and has 52 Classical songbooks open Ar dy Volsky. taught on the agriculture faculty of � path to Mozart, I the University of Khartoum. Mendelssohn, Italian songs 6 The spreading web of Three collections edited by John Geprge Soros Glenn Paton: 26 Italian Songs and The geopolitical profileof a fast­ Departments Arias; 24 Songs by Mendelssohn; rising Hungarian-American 12 Songs by Mozart. financier. 47 Report from Bonn Scandals target Kissinger's friends. 54 Handel's way to learn 10 Sudan's farmers achieve figured bass grain surplus, send food 57 Music Views and Reviews Continuo Playing According to relief abroad Singing and the French horn. Handel: His Figured Bass Part 1 of an interview with Amb. Exercises, with a commentary by Abdalla Ahmed Abdalla. 72 Editorial David Ledbetter. Nationalize the Federal Reserve. 15 HOiW Ibero-America can become an economic superpower Photo credits: Cover, pages 26, A presentation by Ibero-American 29, 34, 35, 63, StuartLew is. Pages Editor Dennis Small to the founding 11, 14, Ministry of Information, conference of the Ibero-American Republic of Sudan. Page 16, Solidarity Movement. UNICEF/Claudio Edinger. Page 25, Lamar Pittman. Page 27, 19 Banking Stanley Ezro!. Page 41, Philip Ro� from the poor to give to the Ulanowsky. Page 44,U.N. Photo. rich. Page 53, Alfred Publishing Company. 19 Wine speculators heading fora bust 20 Currency Rates 21 Ba�king Rob from the poor to give to the rich, 22 BU$iness Briefs • Volume 20. Number6. February5. 1993 Feature International National 36 Pressure on Croatia marks 58 Will there justice under countdown to World War Bill Clinton?bIe III On the fourth anniversary of the Helga Zepp-LaRouche warns that politically moti!Vatedincarceration "the short fuse for an of Lyndon LaRouche, the incoming internationalizationof the war in Clinton admini$tration is faced with the Balkans has almost reached its an opportunity to right this detonator. " injustice, free the political prisoner, and oust the real criminals from the A march and vigil outside the White House in Wash­ 38 Germans weigh military Justice Department. ington' D.C. on Jan. 27, 1993, the fourth anniversary of Lyndon LaRouche's imprisonment. With the new action against Serbia administration in total disarray, the one bold move Michael Liebig reports from 60 High court approves Clinton could make to take back control of the agenda Wiesbaden on the options for execution of innocent would be to free economist LaRouche. Germany in this strategic crisis. The shocking verdict in the case of Leonel Torres IHerrera. 24 Clinton's choice: Free 39 'Friends of Schiller' meet Documentation: Excerpts from the LaRouche or suffer in Croatian capital U.S. Supreme Court record. disaster If the new President persists in 40 Billington tour in Mexico 61 Clinton ex�ands death obeying Wall Street's demands for penalty for unborn greater austerity, he will find builds support to free LaRouche Documentati.: From the homily himself having the shortest political of Cardinal JoijnO' Connor, honeymoon on record. Documentation: Mexican press coverage of Gail Billington's tour; a archbishop of New York, statement from Michael Billington commemorati g the 20th 26 Who's who in the Clinton � to the peopleof Mexico. anniversary of�oe v. Wade. administration 43 Mench6 delivers death 65 The 'Octo�r Surprise' sentence to Guatemala scandal: anatomy of a coverup 45 Time to probe the dealings of Australia's lsi Leibler 68 Congressiop,al Closeup The president of the World Jewish Congress is taking a high profilein 70 National News Asia.
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